Gideon Levy and His Gush Etzion Delusions

"Do they really imagine that the Palestinians will ever give up this intersection, which was built forcibly on their land, against their wishes, like all the huge settlements surrounding it?"

It's with those words that Haaretz's Gideon Levy finished up his article last week, criticizing us Jews for living in Gush Etzion and building the Gush Etzion junction and the communities around it.

Land Levy claims was forcibly stolen from Arabs - essentially justifying their rage and terrorism.

Except, of course, it wasn't forcibly stolen.

Professor Asa Kasher pointed that, in fact, the Arabs gave up this intersection and neighboring lands of their own free will.

The Arabs that owned the land in the area, sold it for hard cash to Kasher's grandfather, Rabbi Menachem Kasher and the Zichron David society, in the year 1926. It became the Hareidi farming community of Migdal Eder with some 160 people - only to then be destroyed by the Arabs during the 1929 Arab riots. Nothing's changed.

[Sigh] Gideon Levy and his many delusions.